Have any Littens read this Alex Rider series and would you recommend it for a 12 year old? I am hesitant after reading a librarian review in Goodreads and The Common Sense Media review.

I didn‘t enjoy this one as much as Magpie Murders and I didn‘t love The Word is Murder. It gets a little unnecessarily slow in parts and I‘m still not 100% sold on the author as character theme. Maybe I‘m just not invested in the characters? I don‘t know. If the Hawthorne series continues to follow the established pattern, it might become too predictable or gimmicky, especially with the twists at the end. I doubt I‘ll continue on.

Oh my goodness, the vivid & voluptuous imagery! I want to gobble it up. 🤪 I‘m only a few chapters in, I hope it holds up. 🤞🏾

Foule Mudammas for dinner tonight! It is one of those ubiquitous staple dishes in Africa and Middle East, which slightly varies from cook to cook. 😋 My favorite version is Ethiopian with heaven sent Berbere. 🌶 Google a recipe and try any of the variations!

Audio baking - pumpkin donut holes for the kids. I don‘t have much of a sweet tooth, so the sugar coating they are rolled in is over the top!

The blurring of reality and fiction in this series is an interesting note. He references books & writing. I don‘t read many novels where the author is a character.

🤔🤔Kondo now has an online store where you can buy more “stuff.”

I know all you Littens will be envying my reading selections today. 😏😝

For cookbook lovers, talk about throw back! 😅 Babylonian recipe tablets translated - I hadn‘t heard about this until now. The embedded link in this article will take you to a couple of written recipes. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/16/npr-eat-like-the-ancient-babylonians-re...

A confessional post. I‘ve never read AWIT, nor have I attempted to read it to my kids because in general they don‘t dig fantasy. My son tried the graphic novel but bailed. Soooo, I was surprised they decided to watch the Disney adaptation last night for family movie. We enjoyed it.😁 My question is aside from the obvious tech elements, how different is it from the novel?

I found a newish winter mystery read on Kindle Daily deals! This seems to have become a delightful tradition for me in the last couple of years thanks to Litsy - the incongruous cozy Christmas murder. ❄️🗡🎄

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

1. Finishing another essay, one more to go!

2. “Hobbies are for people who don‘t read books”💜

3. 30 F and breezy

@MoonWitch94 #thoughtfulthursday

This multicast audio performance is outstanding!!! I will be listening again. I really enjoy the interjection of snippets of thoughts and conversations as perspective in a story, especially in audio books.

Loved Porter‘s imagination and am looking forward to reading Grief Is The Thing With Feathers.

3 F this morning - it‘s going to another very long winter at this rate. 🥶 So I‘m thinking Mexico - shrimp tacos for dinner!

This is such a great little cookbook, highly recommend. It sprang from salsa days at an adult ESL program where students were learning to translate kitchen measurements. Proceeds benefit the school.

I‘m thinking about the avocado/tomatillo salsa, if I can find either of those ripe!

Am I hearing some snippets of voices of the dead in the cemetery? If so, it‘s reminding me of Lincoln in the Bardo and that‘s a very good thing.

In reluctant acknowledgment of our snow and December temps, I pulled out my winter mug. Peppermint Twist tea.

My plans for today. 🤓 I haven‘t decided whether I like Rousseau as a writer or person yet.

MacMillan‘s new e-book policy for all libraries: 1 copy of an e-book per library and 8 weeks after release date.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/01/npr-books-you-may-have-to-wait-to-borro...

As the library rep states, people who borrow library books aren‘t going to be the demographic that buys an e-book anyway. That is me.

Impulse buy at Dollar Tree, because it was the only thing remotely appealing.

Does anyone else have these small town cookbooks? They were gifted from my grandma. Same grandma who hooked me into reading and wanting to be a teacher. 💜 I don‘t use them often, but some recipes are comfort or holiday food favorites. Tonight it‘s tuna noodle casserole. (I know I should type “hot dish”, but I‘m not a native Minnesotan.) 😆

I adore this cover! #GuessWhat is this #iconic cover

Very fun idea @BarbaraTheBibliophage !! My memory is crap for titles, but I‘ve enjoyed having it jogged by the covers posted so far. 😁

Very well narrated! Fascinating era. I liked the idea of the clash between Christianity and paganism, I wish there had been more development of that theme. I loved the natural descriptions and there are passages of very sensitive & lyrical writing. I also appreciated the feminine perspective - I was worried it was going to contain long descriptions of men fighting battles. I had to 🙄 over the romance & sex scenes.

Book mail and none for me. 😫 (What parents sacrifice for their children!) The new Wimpy Kid is a stocking stuffer - yes, already.

Assigned reading today and my expectations are not high. 😏

“It is the grand misfortune of my life, that nobody will let me alone. Why, I ask everybody why, why worry me? Nobody answers that question and nobody lets me alone.” - Frederick Fairlie, Esq.

One of the best sets of opening chapter lines ever!

I feel so much more terribly about the fate of Anne on reread. Collins didn‘t write enough empathy into the other characters for her sad existence and fate.

Analytical research and writing takes all the joy out of reading. 😕

I‘ve thoroughly ruined this very pretty edition of P&P for future reading.

Definitely a pick for anyone who needs one/two pot meals in their life. The pic is Sweet With Heat Beef Short Ribs. 😋

The book doesn‘t convert for Ipot, but if you‘ve been using one it wouldn‘t be difficult to do it yourself.

Putting this book on my wishlist!

Waiting in the pharmacy drive thru - at least I have yummy looking reading material.

I couldn‘t help but love Mr. Bennet! His letter to Collins at the end is just priceless - a polite 🖕🏾. I thought his character witty and admirably tolerant, despite Lizzy‘s criticism as warranted as it may have been. As for Collins, Austen couldn‘t have painted a better portrait of an ass! 😆 Mrs. B added much fun color.

I think it was Emma I read long ago and disliked as a twit, but who knows because obviously my memory can‘t be trusted!

My cat has clearly won life‘s lottery.

We began our new read aloud last night and the first chapter doesn‘t disappoint! Karina‘s pacing is perfect to keep kids‘ attention and the characters are so personable & relatable. This series has the best covers!. 😁

I‘m visiting Pemberley this weekend!

I‘m going to hazard a guess I owe a lot to Mary and her coterie. I bet this work is also going to be highly quotable!

This is a solid two fold mystery, though it‘s long in places and the pacing at the end was off. One mystery wrapped up but you had to wade thru what I felt was unnecessary follow-up to reach the conclusion of the more interesting mystery, which was the execution of a young woman in 1654.

🤔 I can see how this was a thriller in 1927, but it doesn‘t hold up today. It had a very promising atmospheric start and even up to the last third there were intriguing elements, but the end felt contrived, winding itself out without adding any depth to the house characters or storyline. Death, dawn, and the end.

In my mind‘s eye this plays as a classic black & white film with screams and wide eyed close ups. All that affected drama.

Like candy for a tea lover - so many wonderful choices this morning! 😋☕️ I stocked up yesterday. My favorite is the Gunpowder Special Grade.

Princess Dashkova was one of our kind! Voracious reader who spent all her “pocket money” on books and had quite a personal library. At a young age she had her own book agent whose pleasure was to acquire the newest publications from France for her.

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Not the tagged book. ”A Gathering Darkness: Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories”, edited by James Burns.

Husband and I had a good laugh over this sentence last night! Bah! Such wit. 😆

Well, this is certainly off to a great start!

I tried for 3 days to get into different historic fiction audio book and finally gave up. But I was hooked into this one with the first chapter! 👻 Fun premise.

This is between a pick and so-so for me. I definitely enjoyed the depiction of characters and their lives in a rural Scottish Highland village circa 1869, but the last third didn‘t hold my attention as well when it turned to the “expert” criminologist examination and the trial.

The intended victim gets no sympathy from me. 👿

“I have always shrunk from killing so much as a hen, and do not understand why educated men regard the killing of living creatures as sport.”

Well put!

For a fraction of a second I was dismayed until I read it again. 😧😆

The prose is so good that I was engrossed from the beginning! A crumbing house, living deaths, and grisly “accidents” make for a gothic story that fits the bill for the season. 🕷🖤🎃 There was only one cheesy element I had to 🙄 at, but I can overlook it for the otherwise excellent writing.

50F and dreary rain all day - perfect setting for this read. I am going to curb my guilt induced impulse to do chores and cozy up with my Kindle instead. (It‘s just so silly how cold fall feels and come spring this will be a heat wave.)

My thrifty finds - I‘ve been wanting to read the tagged book so lucky day! I read Mrs. Dalloway so long ago I don‘t recall anything about it, maybe the second round will leave an impression. I enjoyed the Candleford series on TV - I‘m guessing the trilogy will be a terrific comfort read when I‘m back in another course next week. 😢

Thrifty find today that should be seasonably appropriate! 💀

9 year old Daughter says 👍🏾👍🏾

The illustrations inside are vivid and adorable! We were happy to find it is part of a series.

This is a very pretty vegetarian cookbook, even the endpapers are beautiful! It enjoyed leafing 😉 thru it, but I only found a few recipes that I‘d actually make, the wraps shown is one of them.

So fun and informative! The format makes the recipes easy to follow. This is going on my Xmas list. 😊

And once again, I‘m now starving.

Perfectly spooky start! 👻